1915 – The Detroit Tigers trim the St. Louis Browns, 12 – 3, with Ty Cobb stealing home in the 3rd inning. Cobb will steal home six times this season.
On April 22, 1915, the New York Yankees wear their famed pinstripes for the first time. Although they are not the first club to use the vertical stripes, the Yankees become so associated with them that writers will commonly refer to the team as the “Pinstripers.”
On April 22, 1915, Napoleon Lajoie commits five errors in the Philadelphia A’s 7-6 loss to the Boston Red Sox. The newly acquired second baseman becomes the seventh player to commit that many errors in a game.
After being called the Naps since 1903, Cleveland’s American League ballclub, plays its first game known as the Indians, a moniker selected from a contest to re-name the team run by a local newspaper. The franchise’s former name, which honored their once-popular player-manager Nap Lajoie, needed to be changed when the 40 year-old second baseman is sold back to A’s, after feuding the team’s current skipper, Joe Birmingham.
1915 – Rube Marquard of the New York Giants no-hits the Brooklyn Robins, winning, 2 – 0.
1915 – In the opening game at Shibe Park, Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Herb Pennock shuts out the Boston Red Sox, 5 – 0. Pennock gives up only one hit, a scratch single by Harry Hooper with two outs in the 9th inning.
1915 – In the final match of a three-game series against the Memphis Chicks (Southern Association), the Boston Red Sox win 10 – 5 to sweep. Babe Ruth pitches the final five innings in relief. The Sox are traveling north from their spring training camp in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
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